8495 




WRITTEN FROM DICTATION BY REV. SAMUEL H. HANN. 



PRICE TWENTY-FIVE CENTS. 




ANDREW J. DOLBOW, 
Wilmington, - Delaware. 

May 22, 1895. 



"The 9 ark 



AND THE 



Bright Side of the £ife" 



0L00 



Written from dictation by 

* HEV. SflMUELH pANN, * 

Of the Neiv fersey Annual Conference, Methodist 
Episcopal Church, with an Intro- 
duction by 

REV. UOHN THOMPSON, 

Assistant Ea\itor of the Christian Standard . 



Copyrighted by Andrew J. Doltiow, 
June, 1895. 



ELMER TIMES PRIN r J<^ ^fi^^T m f 
Elmer, N. J. 




PREFACE. 



The following pages contain an account of 
the life of Andrew J. Dolbow, written from his 
own dictation by the undersigned. It is divided 
into three parts. Part ist embraces from his 
birth to the time when out of the depths of sin he 
cried to God for relief. This part is known as 
' 'The dark side of his life. ' ' 

Part 2d embraces from the time when in 
answer to this cry light began to break in, to the 
time when inTesponse to the call of God he went 
forth to devote his life to special work in His 
service. This part is known as "The bright side 
of his life." 

Part 3d embraces an account of some of the 
work that he has been enabled to do by the bless- 
ing of God in the places to which he has been 
called. This part is entitled "My new work." 

Those who have heard Bro. Dolbow speak 
will not expect to find in these pages the person- 
ality of the man. That personality could not be 
put upon paper by the pen of any person. The 
following taken from the "Divine Life," and 
written by Rev. S. A. Keen, D. D., gives as 
clear a likeness of the man as could be given in 
words by anyone : 

"Bro. A. J. Dolbow, of Wilmington, Del- 
aware, is a kind of a Billy Bray, saved from the 
depths of sin, uneducated, having mother wit, 
much natural ability and eloquence ; wonderfully 
anointed of the Spirit, notwithstanding his singu- 
larities — indeed, by them, is made a great power 
for good. There is such evident sincerity and 



4 

unaffectediiess in all his spiritual mannerisms, 
that while they excite mirth, they at the same 
time command respect. He belongs in that class 
of anomalous religious characters and agents with 
Father Taylor, Peter Cartwright, Geo. Maley, 
Billy Bray and others. His shout is a whoop. 
He often leaps when praising the Lord, but when 
he gives testimony or prays, all feel that he is a 
man of God, and wonderfully saved." 

In what has been written there has been no 
attempt to put this intense, strong personality 
with its mannerisms upon paper. But simply a 
modest attempt to give a continued narrative of 
his life and a simple statement of some of his 
w^ork as he has stated it to the writer. 

It has been written with a desire and belief 
that the book will prove a great blessing. That 
it may encourage those w 7 ho start in life as he 
started, at a disadvantage. That it may lead 
everyone who reads it to see that though a sinner 
by nature and with this bent to sin strengthened 
by a hereditary predisposition to evil , and all this 
increased by years of service in sin, yet he can be 
fulh' saved. Saved from condemnation. The 
force of habit broken . The hereditary taint cured 
and the body of sin destroyed. And further- 
more that God can take wasted powers and ener- 
gies and can concentrate them under the baptism 
of the Holy Ghost until His own strength is 
made perfect in weakness. With a prayer that 
all this and more may be accomplished through 
this book, it is written and sent forth. 

SamuKL H. Hann, 
Methodist Episcopal Parsonage, 
May 22, 1895. Tuckahoe, New Jersey. 



5 



INTRODUCTION. 



One of the most wonderful declarations of 
the word of God is found in Hebrews 7: 25, "He 
is able to save them to the uttermost that come 
unto God by Him." If these words had come 
from the pen of any other than an inspired 
writer it is more than likely that we would have 
staggered at such a declaration through unbelief. 
Or even coming from an inspired writer if we 
had never known of any examples or specimens 
of this uttermost salvation we might be perplexed 
to understand fully what the inspired writer 
meant by the assertion or declaration that Jesus 
is "able to save to the uttermost." But we have 
had all along the line of the ages such wonderful 
specimens of this great salvation that we do not 
stagger at this declaration through unbelief nor 
are we in any perplexity as to the full meaning 
of this text. 

The experience of Brother Andrew J. Dol- 
bow is only another assurance of the ability of 
Christ to save to the uttermost all that come to 
God through Him. 

Just so long as Jesus continues to save those 
who have almost reached the gates of Hell so 
long should the experiences of these wonderfully 
saved souls be published and scattered broadcast 
to encourage the faith of Christian workers as 
well as to encourage degraded and outcast souls 
to come to Jesus. No man should glory in tell- 
ing how near he came to the gates of Hell only 
that he may exalt the mercy of God that reached 
him and snatched him as a brand from the burning. 



6 

I am glad that Bro. Dolbow has been led to 
publish his experience. I pray that it may do 
good,, only good and that continually. Such 
testimonies should have an extensive circulation, 
especially should we try to get such publications 
into the hands of others such as Bro. Dolbow 
was who are nearing the bottomless pit. Praying 
that the Lord may make this publication the 
means of the salvation of precious souls, I would 
give it the wings of the morning and send it to 
the uttermost parts of the earth wherever a 
wretched outcast is to be found. 

John Thompson. 
2002 Brandywine St., Philadelphia, Pa. 



7 



uG Die 9'ariC Side of my £ife." 

PART I. 

I was born in the village of Perkiutown, 
Salem county, New Jersey, on the 30th day of 
May, 1846. When I was one year old my par- 
ents removed to Wilmington, Delaware. My 
father and mother were people of humble circum- 
stances. My father being a waterman and ad- 
dicted to the use of intoxicating liquors, spent 
much of his time away from home, and his money 
for that which has proved the curse of so many 
homes. This put the responsibity of the govern- 
ment of the children, of which at this time there 
were four, I being the youngest, and the expense 
of their maintenance, upon ni}^ mother. In order 
to meet the latter my mother became a huckster, 
in the city market. As best she could she at- 
tended to the customers that came to her stall, 
and nursed me in the intervening moments of the 
day ; while I spent the time she was waiting on 
her customers in a basket under the stall. 

For five long w r eary months my mother thus 
worked by day and nursed me and cared for the 
other children until in her desperation she uttered 
this prayer for me : * 'O Lord if this precious babe 
is to live and if he can be made to be an honor- 
able man, and a blessing to himself, to his par- 
ents, to society, and to the world, may the tide 
of his health be turned now, and may he be 
spared ; but if his life is to be one of disgrace, to 
himself, and his parents, or if he is not to live, 
then may he die now.'' Up to this time, from 
my birth my life seemed to hang in a balance ; 



8 

but now, in answer to the prayer of this burdened 
and over worked mother, there seemed to come 
new life into the blood which flowed in my veins 
until I became a strong healthy boy; indeed the 
strongest of the entire family of seven children, 
three older than myself and three younger. It 
was doubtless this fact which led to the decision 
that I must leave home when less than seven 
years of age, in order to gain a livlihood for my- 
self and thus give relief to my over-worked 
mother. 

The time came for me to go. I shall never for- 
get it. My home was not what other homes were ; 
but it was the dearest spot on earth to me. The 
ties which bound me to my kindred may not have 
meant to me what the}' meant to others, reared 
differently and upon whom more care was be- 
stowed ; but my mother was my best friend on 
earth, and my brothers and sisters were the play- 
mates of my youth and the dearest on earth to 
me. 

I can see my mother now wrapping my 
clothes in a bundle. It did not take a trunk to 
hold them. My father's money had gone to the 
rumseller's till and from there to buy clothes for 
his children. It might take more than one trunk 
to hold them , while I had clothes only enough to 
scantily cover my body and to make a small bun- 
dle besides. Out from this home, robbed of that 
which rightfully belonged to me went my 
mother leading her boy to be placed in the hands 
of strangers. To the steamboat wharf we go 
where waits the boat that is to take me away to 
another home. As she kissed me good bye there 
came tears from her eyes, and down her cheeks 
they found their way and from her lips there 
came a sob, the echo of which I can almost hear 



9 

now ; which told me of the anguish felt by my 
mother at the parting. The boat starts and the 
mother turns to her home while the boy with 
strangers for companions is borne away. 

For a little over one year I made my home 
with George Barnet, near Pennsgrove, Salem 
county, New Jersey; when Mrs. Barnet died and 
the home was broken up. From here I was sent 
to another family without the consent of my par- 
ents, or without any knowledge being had by 
them of my whereabouts. At this place I did 
not receive the kindest treatment. At an age 
when I needed careful training I received it not. 
Instead of being trained up I was clubbed up. 
Not a day's schooling, without restraint, that 
ought to have been exercised ; the inborn trend 
toward evil began to be strenghtened by force of 
habit. The contents of the rum jug with which 
I was sent to the rumseller to have filled were 
sampled by myself. 

It was at this point that I began to be con- 
scious of the presence of the serpent of the still 
within me. That awful appetite, inherited from 
my father, and which in after years became my 
master needed but the taste of the liquor in that 
jug to awaken it to activity. To meet its de- 
mands I drank liquor as soon as I- could get it 
in my possession, either by fair means or foul. 

. To the use of tobacco I also became addicted, 
at this early age of twelve years. 

Soon after this I paid a visit to my home and 
from here I entered the same calling as that fol- 
lowed by my father. I shipped as cabin boy on 
a boat engaged in the oyster trade in the Dela- 
ware Bay. In this work I was thrown in con- 
tact with wicked men and boys whose com- 
panionship I found to be congenial, and whose 



10 

manner of life and habits were calculated to 
strengthen my evil desires and to confirm me in 
my habits of wrong. With people for compan- 
ions that feared neither God nor man I went 
deeper and deeper into sin. The demon within 
with each succeeding day seemed to be exercis- 
ing increasing pow T er, demanding service which I 
endeavored to give by yielding to the demands of 
my passions and appetites. 

Restless w 7 ith the restraints of this life on the 
water, my evil desires sought a wider field. I 
turned to the shore again, living in several differ- 
ent places, a short time 011I3 7 in each place, seek- 
ing all the time for the companionship and fellow- 
ship of those w 7 ith like desires with myself for 
that which was evil. 

At the age of fourteen years I found myself 
employed on what was then and is still known as 
the "Sharp farm," Brandy wine Hundred, New 
Castle county, Delaware. From here I went to 
live on the "Price farm," near Brandy wine vil- 
lage. It was here that I found companions qual- 
ified to instruct me in the dark ways of sin. 
Thieves, gamblers, cut throats, ballet dancers, 
infidels, unbelievers, atheists, men and women of 
the darkest type and of character so black that as 
I review 7 them and their doings, now, their black- 
ness would seem to cast a shadow over the black- 
ness of the blackest conception that I have of the 
blackest hell. 

With the taint of sin within me, had by all 
the race, as a result of the fall, and this encour- 
aged, and in its force strengthened by an inher- 
ited appetite for strong drink, and with passions 
born in me transmitted from those who had lived 
before me; with this class of people for compan- 
ions and to lead me on, do you my reader wonder 



1 1 

that I, a young man at the age of seventeen years, 
had gone in sin far beyond most of those of my 
own age? 

Was there a drunken brawl on hand I was 
sent for by those older than myself, because of 
my natural affinity for that which was to consti- 
tute an essential part of the exercise — whiskey. 
Was there a dance on hand ? Most of those tak- 
ing part might be older than myself, but none 
more welcome than Dolbow, the jig dancer. 
Was there a sparring match, running, tumbling 
or other match, requiring athletic skill and nim- 
bleness? I was sure to receive a special invita- 
tion ; and as sure to accept ; and reasonably sure 
of bearing away with me the so-called honors ol 
the occasion. 

In the spring of 1864, and when less than 
eighteen years of age, I enlisted as a volunteer in 
the civil war, in the 8th Delaware Regiment, 
Company C, 5th Corps, and 2nd Division, under 
the command of Lieutenant Myers. The army 
life presented opportunities, not only for me to 
learn of evil, but to teach others the evil which I 
knew. For while I found myself to be among 
the youngest, of the soldiery, yet in knowledge of 
evil and adeptness in the practice of the same I 
was among the most mature. 

At the battle of Five Forks, Virginia, I was 
shot. From the battle field, in an unconscious 
state, I was carried to the division hospital at 
Cit}' Point, Virginia. On regaining conscious- 
ness I found myself surrounded with the wounded 
and dying, and thought that I also must surely 
die. In a few days, however, I had gained suffi- 
cient strength so that I was removed to Finley 
Hospital, Washington, D. C. During my stay 
here General Lee surrendered to General Grant, 
and the war was at an end, consequently I re- 



12 

ceived an honorable discharge and returned to my 
mother's home in Wilmington, Delaware; at 
which place I did not arrive until I had a pro- 
tracted dishonorable debauch, during which I 
spent the last cent of the one hundred and thirty 
dollars received at the time I was discharged, and 
arrived home without a penny. 

Following, this, for two years, I pursued my 
evil way, until my health was broken and my 
mind was shattered. From place to place I wan- 
dered, physically and mentally a wreck; young 
in years, not yet twenty-one, old in crime, with 
my body and mind giving evidence of advanced 
age. Oh, the blackness of that awful night in 
which I found myself in the spring of 1867. It 
seemed as if the powers of hell had taken hold of 
me with increased force. 

Thus I drifted on I know not how many days 
until all at once there came into my mind as a 
flash of-light from Heaven, a desire to lead a bet- 
ter life. Whence it came, then, I knew not. By 
what agency it was carried to me, so far as human 
means were concerned, I do not now remember, 
but it came. So far as I can recollect, the first 
thought I ever had of a desire for a better life. I 
may have had a desire to be good before I became 
bad in my acts. But from the time I can remem- 
ber there never had entered my mind a desire for 
auy thing but for that which was bad. So thor- 
oughly depraved was I by nature and set towards 
evil by hereditary taint, and so dense had become 
this cloud of evil by my own acts contributing 
to help make it so, that so far as I can recall 
not a single gleam of light had ever broken 
ihrough the cloud. 

Not within my recollection, up to this time, 
had there ever been a person that had ever sug- 



13 

gested to me the possibility of a be'tter life. Not 
once, so far as I know, had any one told me of 
God, Christ, Hope or heaven. No, not even my 
mother. Do you wonder at this? Do you 
wonder that my mother or some other did not, at 
some time, come to me in my wanderings and tell 
me of deliverance from my evil way ? 

My mother ! My mother ! how she loved me. 
But burdened and careworn, her life was crushed, 
and during the few years I was away from her in 
my childhood, so hardened did I become, so 
warped and crooked and confirmed in sin, that I 
do not wonder that her timid soul shrank from me. 

Let those who would blame her now; remem- 
ber that they do not know me as I was then. 
Why had not others spoken to me? As I look 
back to those days I do not wonder for so thor- 
oughly given up to badness was I for years; that I 
had scarcely come in contact with a single good 
person, and if, perchance, one passed me by and 
looked toward me he could scarcely believe that 

Down in the human heart, 
Crushed by the tempter, 

Feelings were buried that grace could restore ; 
Touched by a loving heart, 
Wakened by kindness, 

Chords that were broken would vibrate once more. 

But while then I knew not whence came the 
thought of a better life, now I know it was of 
God. The desire did not bring relief. It was 
for a season as a stream of light in the darkness. 
The latter seemed to be more dense. I never 
knew with what force the drink habit had taken 
hold of me until I began to think of turning 
away from it. I never knew how rapid flowed 
the current of evil in my life until I began to 
think of stemming the tide, 



14 

The thought, however, was followed by a 
resolution. It was to be a man and as other 
people. I began to look for agencies to help me. 
I felt the need of a home and said " A wife is 
what I need." I polished the exterior as best I 
could ; to do away w T ith the traces of my former 
life, and sought and found a wife in the person of 
Mrs. Maggie Miller. We were married on the 
2d day of December, 1867. So effectually did I 
cover my past life and disguise my true charac- 
ter, that at the time no thought entered her mind 
that she had married a drunkard and even worse 
than that. The revelation, how 7 ever, soon came. 
On Christmas day following my marriage, and in 
less than four weeks from the same, I turned 
again to my cups and in a beastly state of intoxi- 
cation, returned to the wife and home which I 
had said I needed to help me. 

From this time on for five years I went even 
from the bad that I had been to the worse that I 
had never known. Not only did I learn that the 
wife and the home for which I craved as a means 
of keeping me from evil w 7 ere not sufficient, but I 
took them to share in the degredation which 
came to me. 

During those years my wife, deceived as she 
had been, clung to me and though her lot was 
to suffer deprivation and abuse, yet she was 
faithful and true. As best she could, in my 
sober moments, what few there were, she would 
strive to encourage me to a better life. But of 
no avail were her efforts. For five years I was 
almost continuously under the influence of strong 
drink and at almost every pay day, once every 
month, and not infrequently between these times 
did I become beastly drunk. At these periods I 
was a terror to all with whom I came in contact. 



15 

The demon rum seemed to touch the springs of 
evil within me and all the demons of Hell seemed 
to have their headquarters within ; from which 
they would go forth through my acts to ac- 
complish their designs. 

During most of this time I was employed by 
the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore 
R. R., as fireman in the yard, now known as the 
pOvSition of hostler, preparing the engines in the 
round house for their run on the road, at a salary 
of from fifty to sixty dollars per month, only a 
small part of which went to my family, the larg- 
est part being spent for rum. Several times was 
I suspended for drunkenness and as frequently 
was I reinstated again until at last forbearance 
ceased to be a virtue and after a protracted de- 
bauch I was discharged. Frenzied with the 
power of the demon I had gone from bad to worse 
to depths I had never been. Down, down to the 
very threshold of Hell itself, until I was taken 
one day from a drunken fight, to my home, more 
dead than alive. Here I remained for a week 
hovering between life and death. On recovering 
sufficiently I went to the shop for work but was 
told by the foreman that I was not wanted , 
that I had been drunk again and again and fre- 
quently warned and it did no good and now they 
were not going to tolerate it longer. In my des- 
peration I felt as if I was lost with no hope. I 
wandered from place to place in awful agony un- 
til night ; when I returned to my home and told 
my wife the next morning that I had lost my 
position. Now a fresh sorrow was added. She 
informed me that she had done what she could to 
hold me up but now she was going to discard me 
as a hopeless case. 



i6 

I went forth a wanderer, a drunkard, a vaga- 
bond, to go I scarcely knew where. At last I 
found myself at the shop where I had been em- 
ployed. The foreman met me and to my surprise 
said "Andy we have decided to. try you again." 
Why they came to this conclusion then I did not 
know. In after years I learned that James Mor- 
gan, then and still an engineer on the road, dur- 
ing the night on hearing of my discharge had 
said to the master mechanic: "I think there is 
something better for And}^. If you will try him 
again I will go his security." As I review those 
days now I can see that while then I thought 
there was no one that cared for me yet in the per- 
sons of Mr. Morgan and Mr. Asy Denial, the fore- 
man of the shop, and in others I had friends who 
were more interested in me than I was inter- 
ested in myself. 

On that morning in February, 1873, I reached 
the lowest round of the ladder, in my descent 
towards hell. Here I stood in the blackest part 
of the cloud which hung o\ er the period known 
with me as the dark side of my life. In that 
round-house on that morning I stood a vagabond 
drunkard, with no home, wife driven from me, 
and as I thought, with no friends. Here I stood 
w 7 aiting 1o take the next step, little caring if that 
should take me to the darkness of eternal death. 

Here I close part first of the story of my life 
known as "The Dark Side." Before passing to 
part second, "The Bright Side," I would remind 
the reader, that the review given in part first has 
not been to me a pleasure. It is not and has 
never been to me a delightful exercise to dwell 
upon the wrong that I did towards God, towards 
n^self, and others. 



17 

Would that I could forget it. Would that I 
could undo the wrong that I did to others. 
Would that I could be clear of the effects of the 
wrong which I did to myself, which are and will 
continue to be a harvest reaping from the seed 
sown, but I can not. In the cells of my memory 
is the thought in harmony with fact: "I wronged 
God by my sinful life. ' ' Others w 7 hom I wronged 
have gone into the beyond from which I can not 
call them to make right the wrong done. Others 
there are still living, carrying upon their brows, 
furrows of care that I would gladly smooth away 
if I could. Upon my own body and mind are in- 
effaceably stamped the effects of my evil life, which 
I shall not lose to the day of my death. These 
things being true, I look about me, in the pres- 
ent, and out into the future, I think that it is pos- 
sibly, and probably true, that there are hundreds 
and thousands situated as I was ; out into life 
they have gone, and down the same as I went. 
To them I speak in the recital of the dark side of 
my life, with a desire only to magnify the grace 
of God. The dark side is not the only side of my 
life. If it had been, never would I have written 
it, for then would I have discouraged and dis- 
heartened the many whose lives in their darkness 
are portrayed in the darkness of my own. There 
is a bright side, and may the light of its rays be 
the more plainly seen by a contrast with the shad- 
ows through which the reader has been brought 
in Part i. 



i8 



"Tfte Bright Side." 

PART II. 

The words spoken by that kind hearted fore 
man that morning were full of music to me. At 
once I turned to my work, when with a sudden- 
ness that startled me, there seemed to reach me a 
voice which said "Stop w r here you are, you have 
gone far enough." As if speaking to some one 
who had spoken to me I said, "What is it? 
Who is this speaking to me?" No one was near 
me or in sight of me so far as I could see. No 
answer came to my questions except that w 7 hich 
came in my thought and escaped from my own 
lips, prompted by a power higher than myself. 
"This is a call from the Lord," and I said "I am 
going to get religion." Who God was and w T hat 
religion was, if any one had asked me I could 
not have told. I only knew that I w r as in a place 
from which, if I was ever rescued, it must be by 
a stronger power than any of earth. One time I 
thought a wife and home would help me, but 
now I knew there was something more than this 
that was needed. 

How I went through that day I hardly know. 
When night came I started for what had once 
been my home and from which I had gone that 
morning feeling that wife having turned from me 
I had no home. That night on my way from 
work I did not stop at the saloon as had been my 
custom. I went. straight home and threw myself 
upon the door step and pushing open the door I 
said in the midst of sobs and tears, "Maggie I have 
made up my mind to get religion . ' ' She answered , 
you get religion? You never would keep religion 
and go with the companions that you go w 7 ith . " I 



19 

said 1 C I am going to see if I can get it and then will 
consider the matter of keeping it." What it was 
that I needed and what I really meant I could 
not tell. I knew but little about God and Christ. 
I was ignorant in the extreme but I had resolved 
that there was "somewhere a power that could help 
me and I wanted it. 

Another thought came: "The church was 
the place to seek it. I had not been inside a 
church for years, but now I wanted to go to 
church. I said to my wife "will .you take me to 
church?" She assured me that she would if I 
would go. That very night we attended revival 
meetings being held in Asbury Church, corner of 
3rd and Walnut Sts., conducted by the pastor, 
Rev. Enoch Stubbs. What the preacher said 
that night I do not remember, I only know that 
when he gave the invitation for those who felt 
their need of Christ to come and seek Him, I 
went forward and knelt at the altar. How to 
pray I did not know. I had never, within my 
recollection, tried to pray. The meeting closed 
and on my way home that night it seemed as if 
all the forces of the eternal pit were at work in 
and about me. 

The morning came and I went to my work. 
It was an awful day. Every fibre of my being 
seemed to be on fire. It w r as a long day to me, 
but night came and to my home I went without 
drink and to the church, and again as a seeker I 
went to the altar of prayer. The meeting closed 
and still no relief. The most of the next day w 7 as 
spent in prayer the best I knew how. Night 
came, and again for the third time I went to my 
home without drink. This time I carried with 
me the money received for what work I had done 



20 

at the shop during that month, I took the 
money home, and for the first time in my life 
handed to my wife the earnings of the month. 
That this act of mine, was a surprise to her, was 
quite clear. It was an evidence of my sincerity 
in trying to break away from my former life. I 
then did towards her what she had been com- 
pelled to do towards me under our "old life," 
viz.: "solicit, a little cash." Then she did 
towards me just what I had done hundreds of 
times towards her, viz., asked me this question: 
"What are you going to do with the cash." I 
answered, "I owe a rum bill and I want to go pay 
it. " She said, "If you go to that saloon you will 
be drunk before you get out." Censure that 
woman if you will for her lack of confidence, but 
remember what I had been to her. At last with 
some reluctance she gave me the money and I 
started for the saloon. When I arrived and en- 
tered the door the fumes of the liquor reached 
me, and it seemed to me as if at one moment 
every breath that I drew laden with the fumes of 
that liquor, was extra fuel added to the fire that 
was raging within me. As I entered the saloon 
the man behind the bar said "Hello Andy, where 
have you been the last few days ; you have not 
been around?" I answered, "I am now trying to 
lead a better life, will you tell me how much I 
owe 3'ou." He stated to me the amount, and I 
paid the bill . 

That was the last cent of money that I ever 
spent for rum, but quickly the fellow put upon 
the bar a bottle with whiskey and glass and said : 
"Take a drink." That moment was to me a 
crisis. The old appetite within me sprang at once 
into activity ; my very tongue reached for a taste 
of the contents of that bottle. I looked at the 



KNOCH STUBBS. 



21 

man, the bottle and at myself. Quick as a flash 
there came before me a review of what this thing 
had done for me, and then with all the emphasis 
that I could give the word I said: "No Sir! 
Rum has been my, curse, it has blasted my life 
and well nigh sent me to hell. I am never going 
to take another drink of liquor as long as I live." 
No sooner had I uttered the words than there 
seemed to come to me a consciousness of 
strength. Alread}^ I began to find within me pos- 
sibilities that would lead me to manhood. 

As I uttered the words the bar tender looked 
at me and to my surprise he said : "Andy I glory 
in your spunk." I turned from that saloon that 
night never to visit it or any other one, in order to 
seek the fellowship of those who frequent such 
places. From the saloon I went home and the 
fact that I came without the fumes of liquor on 
my breath convinced my wife that I was in dead 
earnest in my efforts to be saved. To the church 
we went that night and again listened to the in- 
vitation to seek the Lord. What a struggle was 
that which went on w 7 ithin me that night As I 
have reviewed it since that time, it has seemed to 
me that the devil must have known that if I w T ent 
to that altar again I would be saved, and his 
power over me would be broken . I felt is if I 
was fastened to the seat on which I was sitting. 
I endeavored to rise but it seemed as if my 
body was to heavy for my limbs to bear. At last 
I mustered strength and'w 7 ith all the energy at my 
command I started for the altar but verily it 
seemed as if the bench was coming after me. 

Again I prayed and cried and struggled in 
awful agony of body and soul. My tongue and 
throat seemed parched, my very vitals seemed to 
be burning up. I seemed in my soul to be on the 



22 

very verge of the bottomless pit. Outside and 
away from all help. I was lost to every thing 
and every body. The meeting closed and most 
of those who were there had gone home, but still 
I remained at that altar. There stood by me 
three men: Rev. Enoch Stubbs, the pastor of the 
church, Bros. George Pooltney and Samuel Cas- 
person. Bro. Pooltney bending over me said: 
"Look up there is something better for you." 

w T hat a sense of utter helplessness came over 
me. My physical strenght was gone and my 
very soul was crushed. At that moment I was 
ready and willing to do any thing that w r as told 
me and to go anywhere in order to be saved. 
Trying to obey the command of that man of God. 

1 cast my eyes toward Heaven and cried out: 
"My God give me freedom or let me die.° 
Those words expressed the cry of my entire be- 
ing. A cry which I felt if it was not heard, and 
if relief did not come, surely I must die on the 
spot. 

But I did not die except to sin. Instantly, 
quick as a flash from heaven, there came an 
answ 7 er which reached me in the lowest depths to 
which I had gone. Relief came, the burden was 
gone, and though its weight had been increasing 
through years of service of sin until it crushed 
me and sank me in the mires of hell, yet in less 
than a second of time it was all gone and I felt 
myself standing on what seemed to me to be the 
threshold of heaven itself. 

I sprang to my feet and jumped and shouted 
through the church and out and through the 
streets to my home. The first words uttered by 
myself in the new language I shouted again and 
again: "Glory to God I am free at last:" 



23 

going through the streets shouting these words 
and bareheaded, for I left my hat at the church, 
I do not wonder that I raised a commotion. 
Crowds of people gathered about the door of my 
home to hear the new sounds coming from the 
same. They had been accustomed to hear curses 
and language unfit to be heard but they had 
never heard praises to God and prayer in that 
house before. 

With my wife and her boy by a former hus- 
band, and her father and mother about me in the 
house and with crowds of people about the door 
I made my first prayer at my family altar. The 
prayer offered was not scientific in its construc- 
tion so far as rules of language were concerned, 
but it was the outburst of a heart in thankfulness, 
made new, and a cry for help that it might be 
kept in this way. The effect of that prayer, 
crooked as it w T as, w 7 as marvelous. The neigh- 
bors came about the house until my w 7 ife said 
"They think you have gone crazy." But I told 
them that for the first time in my life I was 
clothed and in my right mind. The very cat, a 
pet of the house seemed to know that something 
new was on hand. And why not? The dumb 
animal that had crouched at my coming and had 
only received kicks and cuffs now seemed like 
a new creature in the order of creation, in its rela- 
tion to me, and I suppose that my kind treatment 
may have suggested that I was not the same man. 

But whether the neighbors knew 7 by the new 
sounds coming from that home that a new man 
had moved in ; and whether the cat knew it by 
the difference in the treatment received, there was 
one thing sure, there was one person that did 
know it; that person was ni5 7 self. I retired to 



24 

my bed that night with an experience I never 
had before. Somehow or in some way I was 
conscious that the awful burden of sin was gone ; 
and that I was a child of God. Furthermore I 
was conscious that I was a new creature and that 
the appetite for rum and tobacco was gone. I 
did not stop to reason then as to the improba- 
bility of this. Nobody came to me then and said 
"The day of miracles is past, Christ has changed, 
He cannot do to-day what he did when he was 
here in the flesh. I did not know then that any- 
body that professed to believe in Christ at all en- 
tertained such a belief. I have found out since, 
however, that such is the case. But if they had 
come to me that night I would not have believed 
then any more than I believe them now 7 . 

When I was seeking deliverance I was told 
I could have it complete in Jesus Christ and I be- 
lieved it that night and more than this, I not only 
believed it but I knew it. The hereditary appe- 
tite for rum, tobacco and other narcotic stimu- 
lants was cured when I met Jesus that night and 
to this day I have never had a relapse. Let the 
world scoff at the statement if they will. Let 
even those who profess to be the Lord's children 
deny the possibility if they will but w 7 hat I know 
I know why I do know. And this I know 7 . I 
was a slave but in Christ I was made free. Glory ! 
But little sleep came to me during the night. I 
arose early and what a sense relief there was 
within me. I said to my wife "I feel this morn- 
ing as though I was living in a brown stone front 
with a silver plate on the door with my name 
graven on it." But do you know that the old 
house was the same? It was I w 7 ho had changed. 

Before leaving my home that morning to go 



25 

to my work we had our family prayer. My 
thought turned toward the word of God, as con- 
taining that which I needed to know in my new 
life. But the fact stared me in the face that I 
had wasted my time in sin and that I could not 
read. But I said to my wife, bring a Bible and 
teach me how to read it. We turned to the 
fourteenth chapter of the gospel by St. John and 
she began with me the lesson. After a few words 
of explanation it seemed to me that the word was 
unfolded. I had never read in my life. Had 
grown up in ignorance and now there seemed to 
come to me an ability to grasp the meaning of 
this chapter. I put the words together and read 
it through. Just in what degree this w T as as- 
sistance given in a supernatural sense I do not 
determine. What were the powers of my mind 
disciplined by my contact with men and things I 
do not know; but now out from under the awful 
blackness that had been over me there seemed to 
be a play of my mental powers that I had never 
known. Up to this time I did not know that it 
were possible for me to read words on paper so 
as to get the sense; but now there came a con- 
sciousness of the fact w T hich to me is of more 
value as proof in its favor than all the criticisms 
made against it are proofs in opposition. 

As I went to my work that morning it ap- 
peared to me that I was in a new world. I went 
forth w T ith the truth of these words ringing in my 
soul, though at that time I had never heard them: 

He lives, all glory to His name, 

He lives, my Saviour's still the same, 

He lives! He lives, who once was dead, 

He lives my everlasting Head. 

He lives and grants me daily breath, 

He lives and I shall conquer death, 



26 

He lives my mansion to prepare, 
He lives to bring me safely there. 

Arriving at the shop do you wonder that my 
shopmates thought me crazy? Glory after glory 
filled my soul as I told them of the great change 
that had come over me. How they gathered 
about me to hear this new story of what Christ 
had done for me! 

From this time on my life was a new one. I 
began at once to tell the wonderous story of 
Christ's pow r er to save to all that would listen to 
me. Whether at my work or elsewhere, day or 
night, this was my theme. I soon learned that 
the world was no friend to help me in this life, 
and I began to reach out after God in His full- 
ness. Under increased light which came to me I 
soon saw that I would be obliged to change my 
work in order that I might not be compelled to 
w r ork on Sunday as had been my custom. I told 
my convictions to Bro. Pooltney, who had been 
my spiritual adviser w T hen I was seeking the Lord, 
and said to him that I had made up my mind to 
give up my w r ork in order that I might be true to 
God, even though by so doing I would be com- 
pelled to live on bread and water. He said to 
me: "Andy, if you have to live on bread and 
water the Lord will sweeten the water." 

I went to the master mechanic of the railroad 
and said to him: "I don't know how you read 
your Bible but mine tells me to remember the 
Sabbath day to keep it holy, and I have come to 
ask to be released from my Sunday w r ork." In a 
few days I was notified that my work w 7 ould be 
changed and that there w^ould be a reduction of 
my wages to about one-half what I had been re- 
ceiving. This position I accepted and moved my 



27 

family into a two-roomed house in order that my 
expenses might be kept within my income. From 
that time on for fourteen years until I entered the 
evangelistic work I continued in the employ of 
the company and never worked a single Sunday. 

Soon after changing my position I entered in- 
to the experience of entire sanctification. By the 
name as such I did not stop to consider it, but 
I did reach out after freedom from an internal 
strife known to myself if not to others. The in- 
herited taste for liquor and other narcotics was 
gone, but there was a consciousness of an unrest 
from which I desired to be delivered. That de- 
liverance I sought and obtained of the Lord Jesus 
by an exercise of faith in Him. 

What ever may have been the experience of 
others I know that in my case there was a com- 
plete radical change at the time of my conversion, 
and that afterwards my soul cried out for de- 
liverance from an inward unrest and that I sought 
it by faith in the Lord Jesus and received it in 
the same way and that I have it now. Glory ! 

Others may profess to be the children of God 
by being sanctified wholly at the time of their 
conversion and yet have an appetite for the 
onions, garlic and leeches of the Egypt of this 
world but my relish for those things departed 
when I took Christ for my sanctifier and Halle- 
lujah ! it has never come back. Others may say 
they grew into it or expect to, but as for me the 
more I attempted to grow into it the more I didn't 
grow. Others may say "It is not to be had until 
death," but I was simple-hearted enough to be- 
lieve that if the Lord could save me fully at death 
he could save me while I lived and that I could 
be of more use to Him if I was so saved than if I 



28 

was not. And Hallelujah ! I found it to be true. 

Entering into this experience how my eyes 
began to be opened ; not only as to my privilege 
in freedom in niy own experience but liberty in 
work, and also in relation to the world unsaved. 
I began to see that the Lord having saved me I 
was to help save others. Opportunities were pre- 
sented for me to conduct prayer meetings in 
churches and homes during the w T eek and on the 
Sabbath day. 

Uniting with the church in w 7 hich I was con- 
verted, Asbury church, Wilmington, I was soon 
appointed class leader. This office I continued 
to fill until I entered the evangelistic w 7 ork. The 
last class was formed largely from those formerly 
non-church goers; gathered from different sec- 
tions of the city, converted, formed into a class 
and I was appointed their leader. During this 
time I also engaged in the rescue mission work. 
For eleven months every night in succession and 
three times on Sunday I conducted meetings at 
Holly Tree Inn. Having been licensed as an 
exhorter by the church of which I was a member, 
I conducted meetings at Silver Brook. At first 
the people were gathered under a tree. Great 
crowds of people came to hear the simple mes- 
sage which the Lord helped me to give. People 
were converted and afterwards organized into a 
class. A board of trustees were elected. Prop- 
erty was purchased and afterwards deeded to the 
Methodist Episcopal church and a society was 
formed now 7 known as Silver Brook church. I 
also conducted meetings in Wesley and Epworth 
churches in the city of Wilmington, where ex- 
tensive revivals were held. 

In addition to this work in homes and 



29 

churches I was called day and night to visit the 
sick and dying. I went in response to calls to 
many that never attended the churches and were 
not known to the pastors of the same. 

While thus engaged, running my engine dur- 
ing the day and holding meetings and visiting the 
sick and dying at night and on Sunday, there 
began to dawn on my thought that God wanted 
me to leave my work of running an engine and to 
devote all of my time to saving souls. By what 
means or when it first came I do not now recall. 
I turned it aside as being a temptation. But 
again and again did I hear what I began to be- 
lieve was the voice of God calling me to special 
work. For a long time I kept it to myself ask- 
ing the Lord to keep me steady and not let me 
make a mistake. I reasoned about it and then I 
would say: "Surely the Lord does not want me 
to leave my work and devote my life to His ser- 
vice when there are so many better qualified than 
I." But this did not satisfy me. Like a clap of 
thunder out of a clear sky would come the call. 
At last I resolved to consult my friends concern- 
ing the matter. I talked with some and wrote 
to others. The advice of one was the advice of 
all. "Don't you leave your work. If you do 
the people will think you have lost your mind, 
and besides this you will starve to death. There 
are college graduate preachers that are only 
barely making a living and you scarcely know 
anything, how will you get along?" That I did 
not know as much about books as some other 
people I knew ; and that there were college and 
other graduate preachers intellectually qualified 
for their work, who were not getting to be mil- 
lionaires by their profession I also knew. But 



30 

still the call came. At last I said "If there is no 
room for me at the top of the ladder perhaps I 
can find a sphere at the bottom and if God wants 
me in the small places where others do not go, 
and to do a work that is not being done by others, 
he will take care of me in that work. I grasped 
the truth. 

My Father is rich in houses and lands, 
He holdeth the wealth of the world in His hands! 
Of rubies and diamonds, of silver and gold 
His coffers are full — He has riches untold. 
A tent or a cottage, why should I care ? 
They're building a palace for me over there! 
Tho' exiled from home, yet, still I may sing 
All glory to God, I'm the child of a King. 
I'm the child of a King, 
I'm the child of a King, 
With Jesus my Saviour 
I'm the child of a King. 

I settled the matter as to the genuineness of 
my call from God to some special work. What- 
ever people might think I believed I knew God 
called me to work. I said I w 7 ill go if I die. If 
I do not heed the call I shall die spiritually and 
lose my experience. 

I gave a month's notice of my intention to 
quit and worked it out. I drew my last month's 
pay and began my life of faith. From that time 
to this I have never wanted a thing. In my own 
religious life and experience there seemed to come, 
with my new consecration and faith, an enlarge- 
ment and with it more than a corresponding sup- 
ply of divine grace, so that I have found it to be 
true as never before "Eye hath not seen nor ear 
heard, neither have entered into the heart of man 
the things which God hath prepared for them 
that love Him." 

As to temporal things : When I quit my work 



3i 

and drew my last month's pay I did not know 
where my next dollar to meet my family and per- 
sonal expenses was coming from. But I believed 
that God, who supplied the needs of the spiritual, 
would also furnish supplies for the material. 
The first I received was through the hands of a 
friend who met me on the street one day as I was 
looking for orders from heaven. He said: "Andy, 
how would you like to go to Mountain Lake Park 
camp meeting?" I answered: "I am not sure 
that the Lord wants me to go there, I have no 
money to pay my expenses." He put in my 
hands ten dollars and said : "You go. " I went. 
That friend, Bro. Harry Webb, of Wimington, 
was God's messenger opening the first door to 
work in my new 7 life. From that time to this I 
have not been idle for the want of open doors. 
Day and night, winter and summer, from that 
camp meeting at Mountain Lake in July, 1889, I 
have been on the go. It was here that for the 
first time I related my experience, the main facts 
being given as related in the preceding pages of 
this book. It was here at this meeting that for 
the first time I met David B. Updegraff, who put 
his hands on my head and prayed that I might 
receive a special annointing for special work. It 
was here that I met Rev. John Thompson, Rev. 
E. I. D. Peffer and many other friends who took 
me in the mightiness of their faith until following 
them I came to a place in religious experience I 
never knew before. Under the inspiration of all 
this I went down from the top of that mountain 
to work, a short account of wdiich is given in the 
pages which follow. It was here that the sugges- 
tion was first made to me that my experience put 
in print might magnify the Grace of God by not 



32 

only showing how God could take nothing and 
make something out of it, but also that every per- 
son who might read it might know the truth viz: 
That there is no sinner so deep dyed in sin and 
this deeper dyed still by hereditary taint ; and all 
this strengthened by the force of habit, but that if 
he will, Jesus Christ can save him. If this shall 
be I shall more than receive pay for sending forth 
the preceding pages which contain an account of 
the dark and the bright side of my life. 



33 



PART III. 

In the account of my work I shall only 
briefly refer to the places where I have been with- 
out comment. Some of the experiences had and 
scenes witnessed would make a book in them- 
selves : 

From Mountain Lake Park camp meeting in 
July, 1889 I went to Chester Heights camp meet- 
ing, from here to Pitman Grove, from here to 
Brandywine summit and then to Malaga camp 
meeting, from here to Cape May Court House, 
N. J., with Rev. J. G. Edwards, pastor of the M. 
E. Church; then to Delmar, Delaware, M. E. 
Church, Rev. C. S. Baker, sixw 7 eeks; to Malaga, 
N. J. , M. E. Church, Rev. S. H. Hann ; to Alloway, 
N. J., M. E. Church, Rev. Alfred Wagg; to Sea- 
ford, Delaware M. E. Church, Rev. W. J. Du- 
Hadaway; to Hurlock, Md., M. E. Church, Rev. 
M. D. Nutter; to Traff M . E. Church, Rev. Cork- 
ran; to Crapo, M. E. Church, Rev. A. Burke; to 
Wesley Mission in Wilmington, Delaware. 

In July 1890, Mountain Lake Park camp 
meeting, two w 7 eeks ; Deal's Island camp meet- 
ing, ten-day; Nelson's camp meeting, ten days; 
to Joanna Heights camp meeting, ten days ; to 
Pocomoke City, conducted a woods meeting two 
weeks, with Rev. J. E. Graham of M. E. Church, 
pastor; to Crisfield, Md., M. E. Church, Rev. 
Corkran, during the progress of our meeting here 
one thousand dollars were raised to pay debt on 
parsonage ; to Onancock, Va. , M. E. Church, Rev. 
George Burk ; to Nanticoke Point, Md., M. E. 



34 

Church, Rev. D. F. Waddell, first to Lone's 
Church three weeks then to Trinity Church on the 
same charge, for three weeks. To Mt. Vernon, 
Md., M. E. Church, Rev. Bowman ; to Westover, 
M. E. Church, Rev. C. S. Baker, two weeks; to 
Pocomoke circuit, Cokesbury Church; to Bethel, 
Delaware, M. E. Church, Rev. Gregg, twenty 
days; to Seaford, Delaware, Rev. W. J. Du- 
Hadaway ; to Camm's Crossing, M. E. Church, 
Rev. R. T. Coursey;to Dudlersville, Md.; to Mt. 
Vernon,. to Wilmington, Delaware tent meeting, 
two weeks. 

In July 1 89 1, Mountain Lake Park camp 
meeting ; to Church Creek Md., M. E. Church, 
Rev. G. W. Bounds, out doors meeting, two 
weeks ; to Lakesville, M. E. Church, Rev. Mclain ; 
to Fruitland, M. E. Church, Rev. Joshua W. 
Gray ; two out doors meetings at Parker's chapel 
and at Lone's chapel; to Nelson's meeting, to 
Tangier Island M. E. Church, Rev. James Con- 
ner, ten days ; to Onancock charge, Eeather- 
burry's chapel; to Crisfield the second time, Rev. 
C. S. Baker; to Hopewell, Md., M. E. Church, 
Rev. J. T. Punge; to Sykies Island, Va., M. E. 
Church, South; to Nanticoke the second time; 
to Cambridge, Md., M. E. Church, Rev. J. How- 
ard; to Hurlock the second time, to Tilghman's 
Island M. E. Church, Rev. J. M. Lindale ; to 
Simpson Memorial M. E. Church, Philadelphia, 
Rev. W. A. Ferguson; to Camden, N. J., Wiley 
M. E. Church, 3rd and Beckett Sts., Rev. S. H. 
Hann, four weeks; to Gloucester City, N. J., 
M. E. Church, Rev. J. B. Turpin, four weeks ; 
to Bridgeton, N. J., Commerce St. M. E. Church, 
Rev. P. Provost, ten day. 

In July, 1892, Mountain Lake Park camp 



35 

meeting; to Burrsville, Md., M. E. Church, Rev. 
J. E. Graham; to Oakland camp meeting, to 
Sharptown camp meeting, to Nelson's camp meet- 
ing, to Tangier Island the second time, to Newark, 
N. J., Presbyterian Church; Rev. McFarland, 
pastor, three weeks; to Newark. Del., M. E. 
Church, Rev. W. J. DuHadaway; to Northeast 
Md., M. E- Church, Rev. Coons ; to Tuckahoe, N. 
J.,M.E. Church, Rev. H. G. Williams, four weeks ; 
to May's Landing, N. J.,M.E. Church, Rev. John 
Wagg, eight weeks; to Wiley Church, Camden, 
second time, three weeks ; to Gloucester City, 
second time, two weeks ; to Chincoteague Island 
M. E. Church, Rev. G. P. Jones, three weeks. 

In July, 1893, to Mountain Lake Park camp 
meeting; to Ridge view, Pa., camp meeting; to 
Stoverdale, Pa., camp meeting; to Seaville, N. J., 
camp meeting; to Landisville camp meeting, to 
Pitman Grove camp meeting, to Malaga camp 
meeting, to Ocean City, N. J., M. E. Church, 
Rev. W. A. Massey, three weeks; to Florence, N. 
J., M. E. Church, Rev. T. C. Carman, two weeks ; 
to Cornersville, Md., second time, six weeks; to 
Collingswood, N. J., M. E. Church, Rev. H. G. 
Williams, to Bird in Hand, Pa., M. E. Church, 
Rev. McKinley, three weeks; to Tabernacle, N. 
J., M. E. Church, Rev. D. D. Fisler; to Chinco- 
teague Island, second time, two weeks. 

In July, 1894, to Mountain Lake Park, to 
Ridgeview, Pa., camp meeting, to Pitman Grove, 
N. J., camp meeting; to Cherry Run, Pa,, camp 
meeting; to Marion Centre, Pa., M. E. Church, 
Rev. Hoffman ; to Valley camp meeting, near 
Pittsburg; to Cornersville, Md., the second time, 
six weeks ; to Tabernacle, N. J., the second time ; 
to Leesburg, N. J., M. E. Church, D. E. Lyon : 



36 

to Mauricetown, N. J., M. E. Church, Rev. 
Alonzo Chambers, three weeks ; to Frederica, 
Del., M. E. Church, Rev. H. C. Turner, three 
weeks; to Clayton, Del., M. E. Church, Rev. W. 
O. Hurst, two weeks. 

Thus I have gone during these six years ; I 
have not had a single day's sickness during the 
time . While my work has not been confined en- 
tirely to to the Methodist Episcopal Church, yet 
most of my work has been done in these churches 
and with the co-operation of their pastors. It is, 
perhaps natural that it should be so. I was con- 
verted in a Methodist church and am now a li- 
censed exhorter in the same. To her I owe all 
that I am. She threw her arms around me and 
led me to Christ. She nursed me during my in- 
fancy as a christian. Others may not feel free 
and be among come outers ; but as for me I have 
the utmost freedom in the church and in work at 
her altars and among her ministry. I have no 
less interest in others and love others none the 
less by prizing the fact that I have a place 
and fellowship with the membership and ministry 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 

What the results of these years of w 7 ork are 
so far as numbers are concerned I do not know ; 
I have kept no account in figures. Many sinners 
have been converted ; believers have been sancti- 
fied and lifted to a higher plane in religious life. 
I have alwa}^s tried to lead the people to Christ 
and the church, believing the latter to be a 
mighty force in helping to develop the life and 
character of the christian. Returning to charges 
where I have worked the testimony of pastors has 
been that the church has not only been a help to 
the converts but the converts have been a help 



37 

to the church, a large number now sustaining an 
official relation and a great force in forwarding the 
spiritual and temporal interests of the churches of 
which they are members. For this cause I bow 
my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus, of 
whom the whole family in heaven and earth is 
named, that he would grant, unto all that have 
been converted, sanctified or helped in my meet- 
ings, and unto all others of His people according 
to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with 
might by His spirit in the inner man ; that Christ 
may dwell in your hearts by faith ; that ye being 
rooted and grounded in love, may be able to com- 
prehend with all saints what is the breadth and 
length and depth and height; and to know 
the love of Christ which passeth knowledge, that 
ye might be filled with all the fullness of God. 
Now unto Him that is able to do exceedingly 
above all that we ask or think according to the 
power that worketh in us, unto Him be glory in 
the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, 
world without end. Amen. 



i 



LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 9 




021 899 877 A 



